Day 5

Day 5

February 5th, 2013

Today I focused on the oscillator of the Korg Ms2000. There is an substantial amount of different waveforms, and with endless combinations, you can make a broad spectrum of sounds.

Now after you choose your waveform, you can do some further sound designing by tweaking it's parameters that affect the waveform of the oscillator 1.

Control 1 is for "modifying" the waveform and it's parameters that are specific to each waveform.

Control 2 is for using an LFO to add some form of modulation to adjust the waveform specified by Control 1.

                   

- Korg Ms2000 Manual


Basically after choosing the waveform and tweaking it's first parameter, turning Control 2 is controlling an LFO that is going use a form of modulation to effect the waveform produced by Control 1.

Synth Notes:

• I stuck with a simple Saw waveform for both oscillators.
• Detuned the second oscillator
• Changed LFO 1's waveform to Sample & Hold.
• Had LFO 1 control the cutoff rate through the virtual patch.

Feel free to Comment!!

-BearCaveSynth

Day 4

Day 4

February 4th, 2013

"Cold Showers"

Shout out to my landlord. 3 days without hot water, or hot showers sucks in wintertime. Thanks for reminding me how much I love being from New England.

Today I started with a one timbre sound. After some editing, I began to go to the LFO's as per usual. This time I tried something new and had LFO 2 connected to control the noise level. I tend to usually dislike adding more random "noise", but found in this use with an LFO, you can control and create some pretty cool stuff.

Feel free to download and comment.

-BearCaveSynth

Day 3

Day 3

February 3rd, 2013

"DAT Superbowl Dip"

As if we all weren't already shoving our faces and drinking our hearts out, seeming how Valentine's day is only a week-ish away.....there was the Superbowl this past weekend.

The friends, beer, wings, screaming, half time show (which was amazing) etc.... and let's not forget that multilayered delicious dip!!! Which reminded me of "Timbres" on the Ms2000.

You can basically think of a Timbre as the finished sound you produced on a synthesizer. These "sounds" can be layered in a certain way to create amazing results...like the dip.

From the Korg Ms2000 Manual.

pg.3

pg.34

Basically.... Just like the amazing multi-layer superbowl dip, synthesized sounds usually comprise of layers or "timbres" combined to make an incredible product. The chart above shows how then can be"single", "split" on the keyboard or "dual".

In our case with the Ms2000 today I decided to stack two Timbres or "Sounds" together.

 Messing with some LFO's, and The MOD/DELAY I was able to producer some cool sounds.

A little distortion near the end never hurt anyone :)

You can hear me from start to finish producing this sound from the first basic timbre.

Feel free to download and comment!

-BearCaveSynth

Day 2

Day 2

February 2nd, 2012

MOD SEQUENCER

"MOD SEQUENCE is a step sequencer that lets you apply time-variant change to various sound parameters in a way similar to analog synthesizers of the past.Use the sixteen knobs on the front panel to set the value of each step, and playback to make the sound change.You can also operate the knobs in realtime, and record their movements (parameter values) in each step (Motion Rec function).Since each timbre can have up to three sequences, you can obtain very complex tonal changes."

-Korg Ms2000 Manual

This was interesting. 
I made a patch from scratch.
And started using the Mod Sequencer to control each individual step's 
pitch and cutoff rate.

Feel free to download and comment.

-BearCaveSynth

Day 1

Day 1

February 1st, 2013

First day of recording the Ms2000 went well. 

I focused all of the tones and sounds emulating from the synthesizer. Finding a sound you like may be easy, but adjusting it to your liking is hard. I feel that shaping sounds to me are like shaping clay into figures.. ....like Sonic Clay? 

ehh.. anyways, after much knob turning and button clicking.....

I had one 26 minute take at 3:00 in the afternoon. HAD to carve it down to around 6 minutes..

Name: "Unknown"

Feel free to download and comment.

-BearCaveSynth

 

Welcome to The Ms2000 Project

The Ms2000 Project

I have this crazy idea.

Let's take my Korg Ms2000 Synthesizer, 

and record something.

Random.

New.

Improvisational.

And jot down what 

I learn about my sound designing..

And Post it.